Hello!
On 10/17/2017 10:47 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
Add fallback compatibility strings for R-Car Gen 1 and 2.
In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
SoCs, f.e. Gen 1 and 2. But beyond that its not clear what the relationship
between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that r8a7790 is older
than r8a7791 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a descendant of the
former or vice versa.
We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme being adopted for
drivers for Renesas SoCs.
Note that R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1 have many compatible IP blocks. The
approach that has been consistently taken for other IP blocks is to name
common code, compatibility strings and so on after Rcar Gen2.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sh_eth.txt | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sh_eth.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sh_eth.txt
index 0115c85a2425..48cab94dd056 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sh_eth.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sh_eth.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ This file provides information on what the device node for the SH EtherMAC
interface contains.
Required properties:
-- compatible: "renesas,gether-r8a7740" if the device is a part of R8A7740 SoC.
+- compatible: Must contain one or more of the following:
+ "renesas,gether-r8a7740" if the device is a part of R8A7740 SoC.
"renesas,ether-r8a7743" if the device is a part of R8A7743 SoC.
"renesas,ether-r8a7745" if the device is a part of R8A7745 SoC.
"renesas,ether-r8a7778" if the device is a part of R8A7778 SoC.
@@ -14,6 +15,14 @@ Required properties:
"renesas,ether-r8a7793" if the device is a part of R8A7793 SoC.
"renesas,ether-r8a7794" if the device is a part of R8A7794 SoC.
"renesas,ether-r7s72100" if the device is a part of R7S72100 SoC.
+ "renesas,rcar-gen1-ether" for a generic R-Car Gen1 device.
+ "renesas,rcar-gen2-ether" for a generic R-Car Gen2 or RZ/G1
+ device.
+
+ When compatible with the generic version nodes must list
+ the SoC-specific version corresponding to the platform
+ first followed by the generic version.
+
The original text uses the different indentation, tab and then spaces),
while you use only spaces here (but not above).
- reg: offset and length of (1) the E-DMAC/feLic register block (required),
(2) the TSU register block (optional).
- interrupts: interrupt specifier for the sole interrupt.
@@ -36,7 +45,8 @@ Optional properties:
Example (Lager board):
ethernet@ee700000 {
- compatible = "renesas,ether-r8a7790";
+ compatible = "renesas,ether-r8a7790",
+ "renesas,rcar-gen2-ether";
Again, using one more tab seems possible here...
reg = <0 0xee700000 0 0x400>;
interrupt-parent = <&gic>;
interrupts = <0 162 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
MBR, Sergei
